ELPS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George S. Benson, Mary Wollstonecraft, French Revolution
7 Mar 2018
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Please identify five out of the seven following ideas, people, and/or movements. In your response, please be sure to explicate the following (as applicable): who, what, when, where, and significance (or (cid:498)so what? (cid:499)): john locke. John locke was an english philosopher and physician that lived from 1632 to 1704. He did most of his work in england and attended the university of oxford. He believed that (cid:494)(cid:494)all knowledge comes from experience and also argued to fix the problem of seperation of church and state. John locke was important for being of the most influential enlightenment thinkers, being apart of the founding of empiricism, the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. He founded the theory of mind, the social contract theory and exercised a profound influence on political philosophy: mary wollstonecraft. Mary wollstonecraft was a part of the english enlightenment, founder of feminism, an education activist and english writer. She lived in london, england from 1759 to.
